Roger Stone, a controversial Republican Party operative who became a major ally of former President Donald Trump and eventually his co-defendant, has come up with a baseless conspiracy theory: Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) is defending the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia to hide the fact he stole the governor's mansion from Democrat Stacey Abrams.
Hot Air blogger David Strom has more, including his response to Stone's cockamamie allegations that won't sit well in Atlanta's historically GOP-leaning suburbs:
That's pretty impressive. Stone apparently believes that Kemp somehow invented 300,000 votes out of thin air, but left Trump behind. If he can do that then maybe he should be the next Republican candidate because he is a sure thing.
The alternative, of course, is simpler: Trump isn't as popular in Georgia as Brian Kemp is, and I would suggest that it is because of this sort of crap that he isn't.
Stone is one of the loonies that Trump likes to hang around with because they enable his worst characteristics, not his best. They tell him what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear. Stone and Trump have been political allies since the 1990s and he is often by his side, so it's not like this is some deviation from the Trump team line, just as is true with Laura Loomer's insanity.
Trump is at his best when his instincts and bias for action are married to the wise counsel of the more sober around him. Many of the people that Trump now disdains and calls traitors from his time as president are the ones who helped him be a very good president most of the time. As much as Trump likes to assert that he is and was surrounded by traitors, he also keeps reminding us that he accomplished a great deal.
Meanwhile, Kemp has run against Abrams twice, narrowly defeating her in the Peach State's 2018 gubernatorial election by 50.2-48.8%.
In 2022, he faced a primary challenge from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, who won Trump's endorsement after Kemp refused to overturn the 2020 election results. Kemp won the primary in a 51.95-point landslide. On Nov. 8, 2022, he defeated Abrams by 7.5% in Georgia's first gubernatorial rematch since 1950.
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